More e-offices opened for govt departments

Chief Secretary Aditya Parsad Padhi inaugurated the e-offices for IPICOL and Directorate Horticulture on Saturday. 

A meeting was arranged in the conference hall for the purpose in which Additional Secretary, Administrative Reforms of GA Department RS Gopalan gave the welcome address. 

Padhi said that the basic aim of e-office is to improve turnout, reduce turnaround time, and ensure more accuracy, quality and transparency in the Governance. 

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This would be helpful in timely delivery of services to the people. 

He advised the Administrative Reform wing of the department of General Administration and NIC to expedite the process of implementation of e-office at the directorate and district levels. 

Additional Secretary, Administrative Reforms department, R S Gopalan said that as of now e-office has been put in place in the offices like Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Commissioner Transport, IPICOL and Directorate Horticulture. 

Center for Modernizing Government Initiatives (CMGI) in collaboration with National Informatics Center (NIC) is implementing the project. 

Target has been set to implement it in Collectorates of 20 districts in the current financial year. The rest of the districts will be covered by end of December, 2016. 

The Director, Horticulture Susanta Nanda while launching the file movement through e-office said that all 63 officers and 5 sections of the directorate of horticulture have been connected through e-office. 

The Nodal Officer of eoffice IPICOL, Susanta Kara said that all 500 current files of IPICOL have been scanned and put in the system. All 49 officers in 8 sections of IPICOL have also been connected through it.

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